Good evening guys, I hope you’re doing really well! Gooosh, it’s been a long time since I felt this tired but also this happy. Yesterday morning I got up at 4:30 AM, I barely slept and headed right to the airport. The sunlight kissed my face good morning and I knew today would be a good one! Becauseeee finally, finally after dreaming of it for a long time I fulfilled my dream to move to Norway. So right now, a new chapter in my life has begun and I’m super excited where it will take me this time. A chapter filled with many new places, people, experiences, emotions and happiness. I guess it’s so important to follow one’s dreams and intuition, since they lead us somewhere inspiring and to places and situations that teach us something important that we will never forget. And maybe the more we try to listen to our intuition the easier it will be to understand it by the time.

My plan is to stay here for a year. Let’s see what my heart will tell me then. I think I could live at so many different places in the world, probably not at every place but at many of them. The most important thing to me is that that you find people you can connect with, who make you feel home and happy. Therefore, I felt home in Germany as well as in Austria and probably will feel home here in Norway pretty soon, too. So, I rather would call myself a “worldling” than a German. Each place in the world has something special to it, something that makes you feel safe and home…

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the rest of your day and follow your dreams! 🙂

Time to say goodbye to my best friend 😦 The view from my new room, so magical!

Throwback to one of my favorite summer days this year! Gosh I will miss this time… but this means that I probably made the best out of it right? And whenever I want to dream myself back into that moment, I will do so. I will close my eyes and taste the sweet vegan ice cream once again, feel the sunbeams on my skin as well as all of the positive vibes this place spread. Wherever I walked there was some sort of magic like if it were a little dream. Wherever I looked there was this wonderful food, so many different minded people and each stand was special in its own way. Besides the clothing stands I loved any other one that had some sort of a spiritual and dreamy atmosphere, like in picture six below.
Did you ever had the feeling of being more like yourself at a certain place because you feel somehow connected? Well this is how I felt. I was so happy especially since I could share all these great moments with my friends there. And I think places like this are the ones each and every one of us should find every once in a while. Places and moments that make you feel good, that stop time and that set your mind free. That will be the memories you will never forget and that you will always enjoy remembering. And I am so, so grateful for that day.
By the way, these pictures were taken at the Tollwood, a festival that takes place every summer and winter in Munich. I have always loved being there at any time of the year since it has its own special charm. And no matter what you are interested in, there is something for everyone like good food, music, clothing, art or anything else. Scroll down for a few impressions 🙂

Hey you guys. I recently just realized that I have never told you the story about how I became vegan… So, here we go!

The very first time I have ever heard about vegan products was a looong time ago, when I was still a little child. My Dad told me something about soy milk and I remember that I found it really awkward imagining people drinking it. Back then it was absolutely normal to me to consume any kind of animal products, since I was taught as every other child, that it is an important part of our every day’s diet. Although I started to ask myself, why one kills and eats a lamb but not a dog? Shouldn’t we love all animals equally? To me we should. I never ever could have killed any animal myself, no matter if it were a dog or a lamb. Never.
This was something I realized even more a couple of years later, when I went to an indoor-market with my family where they sold and cooked fish and seafood. Wherever I looked there were crabs and other animals which were still alive and placed in small plastic containers that were filled with water. And I will never forget the way these poor little animals were looking at me, through eyes filled with fear and desperation. Seeing this broke my heart into 1000 of pieces and I couldn’t understand how people could kill these animals as if their lives were worth nothing. As if they were born for the consumption of humans. I would have loved nothing better than to take every single animal safely back to the ocean. Unfortunately, I realized that not killing any of these animals myself, didn’t make me better person since I was still eating meat. Over time I started to eat less and less of it until stopped eating it at all.
I continued this way of living till I discovered several Instagram accounts of vegans, like Essena O’Neill’s, in 2014. Their attitude to life, their conscious way of living and their food fascinated me in an almost magical way – The world in which they were living seemed to be more peaceful and different than ours… Therefore, I became more and more interested into veganism, started to learn a lot about meat, dairy and egg production as well as about environment and our diet. But the more I knew the bigger my wish, to join the “different world”, became, because the consumption of any animal product didn’t feel right anymore. So, I slowly tried to include more and more vegan meals into my daily life.
It took me about a year until I finally decided to change my lifestyle and I’m pretty sure that I will never forget that day. It was a Friday afternoon and I was sitting at my desk, but instead of studying English I decided to watch a couple of documentaries. Gosh I never ever have felt so angry with the world and so incredibly unhappy. My heart was broken and since then I just couldn’t ignore all these horrible things that have been going on. I wished our world would change to the better, so I decided to be the change I wished to see and became vegan. This was one of the best decisions I have ever made 🙂

Since I became vegan I have been enjoying eating burgers a lot more than I did before – Which might seem a bit ironic for some people, but personally I just prefer the taste of plant-based burgers. There are so many different kinds of veggie patties one can create and these chickpea-zucchini patties are the ones I have been making quite often lately. Besides eating them on burgers I love to have them with some fried or baked veggies, hummus and a squeeze of lemon juice as you can see in the picture below.

Method
Start of by rinsing the chickpeas, lentils and zucchini. Peel the garlic clove and chop it, as well as the zucchini, into small pieces. Now add the liquid, legumes and vegetables to your food processor and blend the mixture roughly. I would recommend to start with less oil and add some more if needed, in order to get a firm consistency. Once you are done with this step add the flour and seasonings. Stir until well-combined. Finally form the mixture into patties and fry them with oil. Serve the patties as a side dish or on a burger. Enjoy hot! 🙂

Hey you guys, I hope you had a wonderful week so far ♥ I’m really, really sorry that I haven’t been posting that much lately but I had to focus on studying for my exams and on preparing my move. Howeverrrr I’m done with all of my finals thus I can finally get back into writing now.
At the moment I’m with my parents, in my old room. Being back home, even if it’s just temporary, feel great yet a bit strange too, because the person – me – who left this place two years ago was a totally different one than the person who returned. In the beginning I was shocked at this realization. I stood infront of my mirror and simply didn’t recognize myself; as if a stranger was wearing my clothes and was living in my home. But right now I’m actually really happy about this since it shows, that I have further developed my personality, that I have grown. By saying this I mean that I feel like I finally found the right path to take in order to figure out who I am. Simply because I have let go of everything that didn’t feel right, I have started to follow my heart as well as my dreams and principally have stopped being afraid of changes. Therefore my mind feels a lot more balanced compared to 2015 and I feel a lot more like myself.
Earlier I was so focused on my life’s plan and never ever even wanted to leave my hometown. Nothing should change… I guess it basically just took a while until I could open up to the world as well as to myself and till I figured out that the perfect plan eventually wasn’t as perfect as it seemed. You can’t plan life, life happens. And personally I find the fact, that each day is filled with surprises which help you a little bit to further develop your personality, absolutely beautiful. Anyway I’m really excited about as what kind of person I will return next time. I can’t wait to get to know her!

I love life and all of its facets, its surprises and challenges. I view the fate as the author of my life’s script – a comedy – a really creative and humorous author. The book is extremely colorful and beautiful in its own way. Some of its chapters are incredibly happy, some are less, yet each of it is a challenge in a sense. A challenge to find the beauty in each line, to make each part of the script as good as possible even though it might seem impossible sometimes. I must say that my author is an imaginative one. He has some sort of ideas I would never have thought of, he creates situations I would never had imagined and sometimes this makes me go crazy. But these ideas in particular have been really important to me over the last couple of months since they made me understand something.
It’s not about reading each line and putting it into reality. No, it’s about changing and emerging my perspective while reading as well as reading beyond the lines. I asked myself: Is the description of the situation really as bad as it seems or is it me who turns it into a more negative version simply because I don’t try to read it differently? Therefore I decided not to just focus on the scene of my script that I’m reading, but to focus on the entire movie and all its viewers also. Viewers who laugh about all of my miserable circumstances. Viewers who know that the end of the movie will be a good one, even if some parts of the comedy include dramatic and sad moments.
This changed me. Whenever something bad takes place or whenever I lose ground now, my very first reaction is to start laughing; about my author’s humor (“You’re not serious, are you?!”), about the irony of the situation, when something turned out differently than I expected. It feels soooo good to laugh about all these things. Life becomes so much easier once you start to take it a little less serious and once you realize that each scene of the script “Life” only describes the circumstances yet the realization is up to you.